Tag Archives: Tenure

Is it time to eliminate tenure for professors?

Is it time to eliminate tenure for professors?

The State College of Florida recently scrapped tenure for incoming faculty. New professors at this public university will be hired on the basis of annual contracts that the school can decline to renew at any time. The decision has been highly controversial. But this is not the first time tenure has come under attack. In […] … learn more→

Tenured Prof sues over suspension

Tenured Prof sues over suspension

Earlier I covered a conservative professor, at a private Jesuit school, who had been on suspension well over a year for naming a student with pro-heterosexual views in a blog post. Now, for what it’s worth, I think the professor was wrong to name that student. Being known as pro-heterosexual marriage can destroy your career […] … learn more→

Finally, openly fake tenure

Finally, openly fake tenure

“I am altering the deal. Pray that I don’t alter it any further.” —Darth Vader, though I knew a deanling that took pride in her power to alter “agreements” any way she chose. Tenure, the supposed “job for life” that is met with so much disdain in the mainstream media, is basically dead. The only […] … learn more→

Retaliation against Professor for disagreeing

Retaliation against Professor for disagreeing

I want to talk some more about this tenured philosophy professor who was fired, because it isn’t just the firing, it’s the overkill that is truly amazing here. While in the “normal” world a pink slip is usually enough, the rulers in higher education revel in displays of power over their underlings. There’s a powerful […] … learn more→

Admin to Tenured faculty: Drop dead

Admin to Tenured faculty: Drop dead

I’ve covered a few times the adjunctification of higher education, which is the replacement of full time faculty by “temporary workers” with no benefits, minimal pay, and the expectation that these temporary workers will remain as such indefinitely. I’ve also covered a few times how much administration really, really, wants to get rid of faculty, […] … learn more→

A philosopher looks at today’s Higher Education

I’ve certainly given the mathematician’s perspective on what’s going on higher education, and I’ve also provided the English professor’s perspective, and the Liberal professor’s perspective. Despite our disparate fields, we’ve independently come to the same conclusions regarding higher education today. A philosopher has provided his viewpoints as well, in a post entitled “The University as […] … learn more→

So you want to be a tenured ally

You’re tenured or on the tenure-track, and you would like to help out your non-tenure-track colleagues, but you’re not sure how. Oh, sure, you sign petitions online sometimes and maybe you’ve heard of some other suggestions, like including adjuncts and full-time NTTs on the department website, suggestions that you may or may not be able […] … learn more→

Time for a teaching-intensive tenure track

In our recently published book, The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom, we argue that the crisis in American academe has nothing to do with the intellectual content of research and teaching in the humanities, and everything to do with the labor conditions of most American college professors. We therefore propose, as a way of […] … learn more→